Argentina: The Kirchner money flow a.k.a. #Cristileaks

Last Sunday Jorge Lanata dedicated his show to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s money flow a.k.a. Cristileaks (video in Spanish),

In brief, Lanata’s investigation alleges that Fernandez and her late husband, Néstor Kirchner, transferred US$492million to 123 sham accounts registered in the state of Nevada during the years they were in office (Néstor from 2003-2010, Cristina from 2010-2015).

In 2014, Lanata had petitioned a Nevada court to release information regarding Kirchner’s companies in the US under a federal statute that allows a party to a legal proceeding outside the United States to ask an American court to obtain evidence for use in the non-US proceeding. The Sunday show calls #Cristileaks a trove of 3,500 pages of documents itemizing the transactions.

The transactions involved banks in the USA, Latvia, Paraguay, Hong Kong, Andorra, and Switzerland (among others) carried by Kirchner proxies, and were managed through Aldyne Ltd. in the Seychelles. The people who served as Kirchner proxies benefited through commissions, pensions, and government contracts.

Additionally, Lanata alleges that U.S. authorities provided Argentina with the information gathered through their money-laundering investigation, and the Argentinian government ignored it. The investigation came about when Argentina refused to honor $50billion worth of defaulting bonds, as bondholders requested the investigation.

Comments

Thank you, Fausta, for digging up this continuation of the Evita III saga. While Evita III and Nestor weren’t Montoneros, they had some Montoneros in the upper reaches of their administrations. Among other things, the Montoneros robbed banks. What was good for the Montoneros was good for Evita III, albeit in different form. What was that Carl von Clauswitz quote- “War is the continuation of politics by other means,” or was it “Politics is the continuation of war by other means?”

Argentina in the 1970s was definitely between a rock and a hard place- the Peronistas or the milicos. Not to mention the Montoneros and friends.